Josephine Olson, LPC
Virginia · 15 years in practice
Josephine Olson is a licensed professional counselor with 15 years of clinical experience.
License and registration
- LPC, Virginia
- 0701005606 · expires June 2026
- NPI
- 1710316229 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 15
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Josephine
Josephine Olson is a licensed professional counselor with 15 years of clinical experience. She practices from Virginia and brings a calm, direct style to sessions. People describe her approach as warm and practical when they need help managing stress, mood symptoms, or difficult life events.
Josephine focuses on helping people facing anxiety, depression, bipolar symptoms, and trauma and abuse. She also supports those dealing with relationship strain, grief, parenting challenges, addictions, and career stress.
Background and approach
She pays attention to attachment and abandonment concerns, codependency, and family problems when those come up. Her work blends Emotionally-Focused Therapy with attachment-informed and client-centered methods. She uses parts of Dialectical Behavior Therapy and EMDR when those methods fit a person’s goals.
In sessions she listens closely, tracks emotion and patterns, and teaches practical skills for managing intense feelings and impulses. Josephine frames goals around what’s doable day to day. That might mean learning grounding skills for panic, emotion regulation tools from DBT, or building clearer communication habits in close relationships.
She also helps people cope with loss, eating concerns, and compassion fatigue through steady, skills-based support. Her practice offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging to make ongoing work easier to fit into busy lives. Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire and scheduling step starts the process.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Josephine lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Eating disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Codependency
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
Approaches Josephine names
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How emotion-focused and attachment work online
Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people notice and name their core emotions, so they can respond differently in close relationships and personal struggles. It is often useful for people dealing with intense emotional reactions, relationship hurt, or attachment wounds.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at early and current connection patterns and how they shape reactions today. It can help people understand recurring relationship cycles, abandonment fears, and why certain situations trigger strong feelings.
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a nonjudgmental, listening stance where the therapist follows the person’s lead. That approach supports people who need a steady, accepting space to sort out feelings and choices.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they will try methods that match those goals and adjust over time based on what works.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video calls are good for face-to-face interaction, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging can be useful for brief check-ins or when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to keep regular appointments and practice skills between sessions.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does Josephine commonly help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar symptoms, trauma and abuse, relationship issues, addictions, grief, parenting strain, and related concerns such as self-esteem and anger.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is warm and practical. She listens for emotional patterns, teaches coping skills, and helps people set clear, manageable goals.
How long has she been practicing?
She has 15 years of experience providing counseling services across a range of mood, trauma, and life-change concerns.
Where is she based and what credential does she hold?
She is based in Virginia and holds the LPC credential as a licensed professional counselor.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English, and she also accepts international clients.
What session formats are available?
Therapy is available through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different needs.
How does billing and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist arrangements; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the first steps to begin therapy?
Use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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